There are many stories to tell about the first fifty years of AI. One story is about AI as one of the big forces of innovation in information technology. It is now forgotten that i...
Currently, state of the art virtual agents lack the ability to display emotion as seen in actual humans, or even in hand-animated characters. One reason for the emotional inexpres...
We show interaction possibilities and a graphical user interface for deformable, mobile devices. WIMP (windows, icons, mouse, pointer) interfaces are not practical on mobile devic...
In this paper, we survey the role of virtual humans (or embodied conversational agents) in smart and ambient intelligence environments. Research in this area can profit from resea...
We propose a method to recognize the `social attitude' of users towards an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) from a combination of linguistic and prosodic features. After de...
Fiorella de Rosis, Anton Batliner, Nicole Novielli...